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Copyright, 1995-2002 1 Invitation to Research RESEARCH ETHICS Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy, Canberra Visiting Professor, CSIS, Uni of Hong Kong Visiting Fellow, Australian National University http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke /... ...Res /65-Ethics.ppt ebs, 16-20 January 2003
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Invitation to Research
RESEARCH ETHICS
Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy, CanberraVisiting Professor, CSIS, Uni of Hong Kong
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/......Res /65-Ethics.ppt
ebs, 16-20 January 2003
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Ethics
‘body of principles governing right and wrong’
may be merely to enable ex post facto,abstract judgements about good and evil
OR
might be instrumentalistwith volitional or motivational powerthereby influencing actors' behaviour
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Ethical Issues Involving Research Subjects
• Researcher power over subjects• Researcher duplicity regarding
the purposes of the research• Subject de-briefing
• Subject Safety, including against stress• Subject loss of control over personal
space, including their behaviour and their data
• Impact of the results
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Controls Over ResearchInvolving Human Subjects
• Legal Obligations (e.g. OH&S, Datenschutz)
• Professional Codes of Ethics• Pre-Clearance from Relevant
Regulators• Typically, University Ethics
Committee• Free and Informed Consent
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Consent
concurrenceby a party
with an actionto be taken by another party
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Consent Context: The Human Body
• Medical Procedures• drug prescription, innoculation, surgery
• Acquisition and Use of Body Fluids / Tissue / Organs
• donations of blood, semen, bone marrow, kidneys• organ donations from the dead
• Acquisition and Testing of Body Tissue / Fluids• health care diagnostics• substance abuse testing• suspect identification and suspect ‘elimination’
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Characteristics of Consent – 1 of 2
• {express in writing OR• express unrecorded OR
• implied OR• inferred}
• {declared by 'opt-in' OR• presumed with 'opt-out', but
• subject to the absence of express denial}
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Characteristics of Consent - 2 of 2• Legal Capacity• Physical and Intellectual Capacity• Informed
• what scope of actions• who may take such action• for what purpose may it be taken• over what time-period does it apply
• Freely-Given• Revocable and Variable• Delegable
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Ethical Issues Involving The Researcher
• Conference paper from incomplete research
• Glossed research method• Anticipated outcomes• Citation and authorship• More details required for method,
outcomes• An eerily familiar block of text• Incomplete references
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Ethical Issues Involved in Paper Submission
• Sponsorship• Authorship• 'School of'
Manoeuvres• Depiction of
Research Method• Plagiarism• References and
Citations
• Depiction of the Research's Significance
• Consideration of the Research's Implications
• Economic Factors• 'Political
Correctness'• Submission
Venue(s)
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Ethical Issues Involving the Institution
• Funding from an interested party• Facilities, unpublished sources,
conferences• Constrained topic-choice• Senior research review• Withholding and/or ‘vaguing up’• Suppressed negative-aspect analysis
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Ethical Challenges:The Lack of Social Impact
Assessment
• Workplace Behaviour, Stress, Skills Formation• Employment / Income-Distribution Mechanisms• Urban, Regional, Rural and Remote• Consumer Behaviour• Consumer Rights• Privacy
(avoid confusion with security, and with data protection)
• Consumer Marketingpermission-based, consensual, micro-, 1-to-1, non-mass
